DIRTY BARS HAS HAD A PASSION FOR MUSIC FROM A VERY EARLY AGE, AND HAS BEEN ‘THROWING LYRICS’ (MC’ING) EVER SINCE THEN. BEN HAD ALWAYS KNOWN THAT HE WANTED TO BECOME AN ‘MC’. THIS INITIAL ‘SPARK’ CAME, WHEN HE FIRST PICKED UP A ‘MIC’ (MICROPHONE). THIS HAPPENED TO BE ONE OF THE ‘MICS’ USED ON HIS DAD’S PIRATE RADIO STATIONS. BENNY C. ENJOYED SAYING ‘JIGGLES’ AND LITTLE ‘8 BAR FREESTYLES’. BEN THEN DECIDED THAT IT WAS ‘HIS MISSION’ TO HOLD THE ‘MIC’ AND ‘MC’ WHEREVER HE COULD… THIS WAS THE START OF A LONG DEVOTION TO ‘MC’ING’.

BEN WASN’T A’FUSSY’ BOY WHEN IT CAME TO ‘MC’ING’… IT DIDN’T MATTER TO HIM WHETHER IT WAS A ‘HOUSE’ PARTY, OR JUSTS A MATE’S BIRTHDAY, ETC… HE ENJOYED BEING HEARD… AND ULTIMATELY, HE JUST LOVED ‘CHATTING’!!! WHATEVER DIRTY BARS DID, HE LIKED.

BEN C. HAD HIS FIRST STAGE APPEARANCE AT AN OUTDOOR ‘RAVE’ FESTIVAL, (LAZY SUNDAY) AT THE TENDER AGE OF EIGHT. ‘LAZY SUNDAY’ FEATURED ESTABLISHED ‘NAMES’ SUCH AS ‘LTJ BUKEM’, ‘GAPPA G’, ‘BARRINGTON’, ‘CONCRETE’ AND ‘FIVE ALIVE’, JUST TO NAME A FEW… A YEAR PASSED, AND BEN DID ANOTHER LIVE SHOW… HE WAS IN THE ‘LUTON CARNIVAL’ IN HIS ‘HOMETOWN’; HE PERFORMED THERE WITH SOME OF THE ’ABOVE’ NAMES, AS BEFORE.

BEN WENT BACK TO ‘FREESTYLING’ OVER HIS DAD’S OLD ‘HIP HOP’ AND ‘JUNGLE’ RECORDS. HIS FIRST ‘STACK’ SYSTEM (STEREO) HAD A TURNTABLE ON THE TOP AND HAD THE CAPABILITY TO ADJUST THE PITCH LEVELS. WITH THIS, HE WOULD PRACTICE ‘REWINDS’… BEN HOSTED HIS MUM’S BIRTHDAY BASH WITH DJ’S LIKE ‘FINGAZ’, ‘BARRINGTON’, ‘TDK’ (NOW ‘DYNAMIC’) AND ‘FIVE ALIVE’.

AS BEN GREW OLDER… HIS CIRCUMSTANCES CHANGED, AND HE PREFERRED TO DO PERSONAL ‘FREESTYLE’ LYRICS’. FOR A FEW YEARS, BENNY C. CONCENTRATED ON LEARNING HOW TO MAKE MUSIC ON HIS COMPUTER AT HOME AND GOING TO THE ODD PARTY OF COURSE… LOL… BEN IS NOW SEVENTEEN AND FREQUENTLY ‘MC’S’. DIRTY BARS ‘MC’S’ AT LOCAL YOUTH CLUBS LIKE ‘POD’ EVERY TUESDAY, HE HOSTS ‘RAPTURE FM’S’ LIVE SUNDAY SHOWS (ON ROTATION… SEE, SCHEDULE). IN HIS SPARE TIME, BEN ENJOYS MAKING ‘BEATS’ WITH HIS CLOSE FRIENDS.

HE IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON A ‘MIXTAPE’ WITH ‘VARIOUS ARTISTS’. FEATURING A ‘WIDE, NEW, BREED OF BEATS’. DERIVING FROM MUSIC SUCH AS… ‘JUNGLE/DRUM & BASS’, ‘2 STEP GARAGE’, ‘RN’B’, ‘HIP HOP’, AND ‘RAGGA’ AND THE NEW ‘URBAN’ UK SOUND… ‘GRIME’… LOOK OUT FOR THE SOUND OF BENNY C. A.K.A. DIRTY BARS!!!

CATCH BEN EVERY MONDAY NIGHT DURING THE UK URBAN SHOWCASE ALONGSIDE DJ TREK...

EMAIL:benc@rapturefm.co.uk